Hmm, how best to pitch it. Do you know the basic premise? People abandoned Earth after a nuclear war and went to live in space stations, after a few generations the stations are breaking down so they send a hundred criminal kids to the surface to check if it is inhabitable. Spoilers, there are other people left on Earth.
The 100 is full of unprepared people thrown into terrible and difficult situations and doing the best they can, which is often not good enough and then they have to deal with that. You have characters with completely opposite views but all of them (more or less) understandable. People make stupid choices because they're human and noble choices because they're human, there is no black and white. (Okay there is some, but also a lot of grey.) There's a lot of "what is morally justifiable when you're trying to survive/save your people?" Another thing that comes up often is vilification/dehumanization of the other side in order to justify what you're doing to them. Many connections can be drawn to current RL politics.
What I like about the show are first of all the politics, and second the characters, with different levels of idealism, and how they react to what is happening and to each other. Off the top of my head I don't know which other show/book I would compare it to, though iirc marina said it is in several ways similar to Battlestar Galactica.
Warning, the show has graphic death and torture scenes.
Does that help? I'd be happy to answer more specific questions too.
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Date: 2016-02-21 09:02 pm (UTC)The 100 is full of unprepared people thrown into terrible and difficult situations and doing the best they can, which is often not good enough and then they have to deal with that. You have characters with completely opposite views but all of them (more or less) understandable. People make stupid choices because they're human and noble choices because they're human, there is no black and white. (Okay there is some, but also a lot of grey.) There's a lot of "what is morally justifiable when you're trying to survive/save your people?" Another thing that comes up often is vilification/dehumanization of the other side in order to justify what you're doing to them. Many connections can be drawn to current RL politics.
What I like about the show are first of all the politics, and second the characters, with different levels of idealism, and how they react to what is happening and to each other. Off the top of my head I don't know which other show/book I would compare it to, though iirc
Warning, the show has graphic death and torture scenes.
Does that help? I'd be happy to answer more specific questions too.